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The Ottoman Empire: The History and Legacy of the Transcontinental Empire that Dominated Eastern Europe and the Middle East for Nearly 500 Years
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ISBN10: 1987531299
ISBN13: 9781987531299
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Apr 4 2018
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781987531299
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Apr 4 2018
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
*Includes pictures
*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading
In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the 4th century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity's greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late 5th century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul.
*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading
In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the 4th century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity's greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late 5th century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul.
The end of the Byzantine Empire had a profound effect not only on the Middle East but Europe as well. Constantinople had played a crucial part in the Crusades, and the fall of the Byzantines meant that the Ottomans now shared a border with Europe. The Islamic empire was viewed as a threat by the predominantly Christian continent to their west, and it took little time for different European nations to start clashing with the powerful Turks. In fact, the Ottomans would clash with Russians, Austrians, Venetians, Polish, and more before collapsing as a result of World War I, when they were part of the Central powers.
When studying the fall of the Ottoman Empire, historians have argued over the breaking point that saw a leading global power slowly become a decadent empire. The failed Battle of Vienna in 1683 is certainly an important turning point for the expanding empire, as the defeat of Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha at the hands of a coalition led by the Austrian Habsburg dynasty, Holy Roman Empire and Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth marked the end of Ottoman expansionism. It was also the beginning of a slow decline during which the Ottoman Empire suffered multiple military defeats, found itself mired by corruption, and had to deal with the increasingly mutinous Janissaries (the Empire's initial foot soldiers).
Despite it all, in the last century of its life it strove to reform its military, administration and economy until it was finally dissolved. Years before the final collapse of the Empire, the Tanzimat (Reorganization), a period of swiping reforms, led to significant changes in the country's military apparatus, among others, which certainly explains the initial success the Ottoman Empire was able to achieve against its rivals. Similarly, the drafting of a new Constitution (Kanûn-u Esâsî, basic law) in 1876, despite it being shot down by Sultan Abdul Hamid II just two years later, as well as its revival by the Young Turks movement in 1908, highlights the understanding among Ottoman elites that change was needed, and their belief that such change was possible.
Overall, the history of the dissolution can be defined as a race between the Empire's growing illness on one side (the Ottoman's inability to appease and federate the various people within its territory), and constant attempts to find a cure in the form of broad reforms. These questions are often presented together, but that tends to shift the focus outward, onto the various peoples and their aspirations, along with Europe's growing influence over the fate of the Ottoman Empire. To consider both the illness and the cure, it's necessary to separate them, before moving on to the direct cause of the empire's dissolution (World War I) and its heritage.
The Ottoman Empire: The History and Legacy of the Transcontinental Empire that Dominated Eastern Europe and the Middle East for Nearly 500 Years chronicles the culture, battles, and events that took place across the vast Turkish Empire from the Middle Ages to the end of World W
When studying the fall of the Ottoman Empire, historians have argued over the breaking point that saw a leading global power slowly become a decadent empire. The failed Battle of Vienna in 1683 is certainly an important turning point for the expanding empire, as the defeat of Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha at the hands of a coalition led by the Austrian Habsburg dynasty, Holy Roman Empire and Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth marked the end of Ottoman expansionism. It was also the beginning of a slow decline during which the Ottoman Empire suffered multiple military defeats, found itself mired by corruption, and had to deal with the increasingly mutinous Janissaries (the Empire's initial foot soldiers).
Despite it all, in the last century of its life it strove to reform its military, administration and economy until it was finally dissolved. Years before the final collapse of the Empire, the Tanzimat (Reorganization), a period of swiping reforms, led to significant changes in the country's military apparatus, among others, which certainly explains the initial success the Ottoman Empire was able to achieve against its rivals. Similarly, the drafting of a new Constitution (Kanûn-u Esâsî, basic law) in 1876, despite it being shot down by Sultan Abdul Hamid II just two years later, as well as its revival by the Young Turks movement in 1908, highlights the understanding among Ottoman elites that change was needed, and their belief that such change was possible.
Overall, the history of the dissolution can be defined as a race between the Empire's growing illness on one side (the Ottoman's inability to appease and federate the various people within its territory), and constant attempts to find a cure in the form of broad reforms. These questions are often presented together, but that tends to shift the focus outward, onto the various peoples and their aspirations, along with Europe's growing influence over the fate of the Ottoman Empire. To consider both the illness and the cure, it's necessary to separate them, before moving on to the direct cause of the empire's dissolution (World War I) and its heritage.
The Ottoman Empire: The History and Legacy of the Transcontinental Empire that Dominated Eastern Europe and the Middle East for Nearly 500 Years chronicles the culture, battles, and events that took place across the vast Turkish Empire from the Middle Ages to the end of World W
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Paperback
$15.17
Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe
Morrison, Robert G.
Hardcover
$203.00
God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
Mikhail, Alan
Paperback
$18.95
The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War
Aksakal, Mustafa
Paperback
$30.40
Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, 1914: A Geographic and Demographic Gazetteer
Karayan, Sarkis Y.
Paperback
$87.50
The Kings of Algiers: How Two Jewish Families Shaped the Mediterranean World During the Napoleonic Wars and Beyond
Kalman, Julie
Paperback
$34.94
When the War Came Home: The Ottomans' Great War and the Devastation of an Empire
Akın, Yiğit
Paperback
$30.00
The Interpreters: British Internationalism and Empire in Southeastern Europe, 1870-1930
Giannakopoulos, Georgios
Hardcover
$188.50
Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power
McMeekin, Sean
Paperback
$32.00
Grit and Grace in a World Gone Mad: Humanitarianism in Talas, Turkey 1908-1923
Elliott, Wendy
Paperback
$43.75
Empire from the Margins: Early Modern Jewish Historians on the Spanish and Ottoman Expansion
Jacobs, Martin
Hardcover
$85.73
Temptations in Ruin: Sovereign Accumulation and the Making of Post-Genocide Turkey
Bieberstein, Alice Von
Hardcover
$72.53
Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1600
Şen, A. Tunç
Hardcover
$94.25
The Life and Memoirs of Fakhri Al-Barudi: The Renaissance Man of Syria, 1887-1966
Moubayed, Sami
Al-Barudi, Fakhri
Hardcover
$72.43
Isaac Barrow's on the Turkish Religion: A Latin Poem on Islam from Ottoman Istanbul
Vozar, Thomas Matthew
Hardcover
$172.50
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of Its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
Thompson, Elizabeth F.
Hardcover
$28.50
The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz
Minawi, Mostafa
Paperback
$28.00
The Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: From Refugee Crisis to Renaissance in the 17th Century
Shapiro, Henry R.
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$52.13
The Kurdish Movement in Turkey: Nationalism, Social Movements and Recurring Cycles of Conflict
Sen, Elsa Tulin
Hardcover
$172.50
Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine Volume 5
Tamari, Salim
Nassar, Issam
Sheehi, Stephen
Paperback
$52.43
Armenians and Young Turks: The Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire, 1895-1908
Moumdjian, Garabet K.
Hardcover
$172.50
The Crescent in the West: the Invasions of Europe by the Ottoman Turkish Empire, 1250-1699
Creasy, Edward S.
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$27.46
Hittites: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient Anatolian People Who Established the Hittite Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia
History, Captivating
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$16.28